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Fuzzy Logic iPhone Dev Team launches iPhone unlock tool at last!
Fuzzy Logic iPhone Dev Team launches iPhone unlock tool at last! | iPhone Dev Team launches iPhone unlock tool at last! |
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| by Alex Zaharov-Reutt | |
| Sunday, 20 July 2008 | |
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Page 2 of 3 At this stage, the PwnageTool 2.0 will only work on Apple
Macs. There is no Windows version as yet, although the developer of the
WinPwn
application now has something to work with, presuming the Dev Team will
share their findings or the WinPwn developer can figure out how the
PwnageTool 2.0 does its magic. Featured Whitepaper
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“Here you go. “We’ll be releasing a more official announcement soon, but we wanted to get the tool out there. We sincerely hope you enjoy using it as much as we enjoyed making it :) “Update 1: Just to clear up some confusion over what this actually does: yes, it jailbreaks and unlocks older iPhones, and jailbreaks iPhone 3Gs and iPod Touches. We only support the 2.0 firmwares. “Update 2: It looks like there aren’t enough TCP ports on that server, so _BigBoss_ has generously offered to mirror it. “Update 3: If you get Error 1600 from iTunes (or if you see in your log a failure to prepare x12220000_4_Recovery.ipsw), try: mkdir “~/Library/iTunes/Device Support” ; if that directory already exists, remove any files in it. Then re-run PwnageTool.” The MacGeekBlog has some step-by-step instructions on how to run the PwnageTool 2.0 and download locations for iPhone 2G and iPhone 3G OS 2.0 firmware, as well as 3.9 and 4.6 baseband versions if needed. Plenty of comments at the iPhone Dev Team blog are very thankful the tool has launched at last, plenty of people have reported that it works perfectly, and there are some who have had issues that are either covered in the three updates to the availability announcement, or are answered within the comments stream by those who have had the same issue and solved it. So... we should expect a Windows version in the not-too-distant future, but in the meantime, if you have an iPhone 2G, 3G or iPod Touch, and want to unlock the 2G or jailbreak the other two, you’ll need to find a Mac owning friend first! Continued on page 3. |
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